Quotes with asylum

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Vance Havner Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • A. E. Housman I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bill Shuster Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Richard Neville Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.
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  • Germaine Greer The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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